Journalistic Career
In 1982 Pritish Nandy became a full-time journalist and editor. He was Publishing Director of The Times of India from 1982 to 1991, and Editor in Chief of The Illustrated Weekly of India from 1983 to 1991. He was also concurrently Editor of The Independent and Filmfare. He served at the same time as Publisher of The Illustrated Weekly of India, The Independent, Filmfare, Femina, Science Today, Dharmayug and Madhuri. He was also Publisher of Indrajal Comics.
In 1991, Nandy left The Times of India Group to do television journalism and began with two shows: Fiscal Fitness, The Pritish Nandy Business Show on Zee TV and The Pritish Nandy Show, India's first signature show on Doordarshan National Network and Doordarshan Metro channels. He also covered the Indian Parliamentary elections 1998 for Doordarshan and did Face Off, a TV show with author Javed Akhtar. He is currently a columnist with The Times of India and Dainik Bhaskar. Nandy opened India's first cyber café in 1996 at Hotel Leela Kempinski in Mumbai.
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